Ironwolf

The original story (with stills, not video) can be found here.
On 3 March 2008, in a popular TV show, Sanal Edamaruku, the president of Rationalist International, challenged India’s most “powerful” tantrik (black magician) to demonstrate his powers on him. That was the beginning of an unprecedented experiment. After all his chanting of mantra (magic words) [...]

Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened — as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding — she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how [...]

Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends! Or perhaps it will start ending in 18 days, like Ron Weinland says. Or perhaps it won’t be until July. Or perhaps…
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People have died to make these films. People could still die for daring to bring them to you. Perhaps you should watch them.
Fitna
Submission

20 days remain until God will be trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored, not to mention loosing the fateful lighting of his terrible swift sword, la de da. So sayeth Ron Weinland. Personally, I thought the opening of the “seventh seal” was a pretty big disappointment after Ron said the [...]

This is a debate thread, so I can keep the Ron Weinland thread on topic.
The debate here can be on the Christian God specifically, other specific gods such as Allah or Vishnu, or gods in general. It’s OK if you want to say another person is being unreasonable, but I will moderate down comments that [...]

23 shopping days until the Great Tribulation (at least, according to Ron Weinland,) so get out there and pump some of those good ole’ American consumer dollars into the economy! Oh, wait, that won’t help— we’re all doomed… right. You may as well send those dollars to Ron, then— he still seems to want them [...]

Hi Robert;
I’ve cannibalized most of the day in a most enjoyable fashion — reading bits and pieces from your blog. I’m writing to you in hopes you might share a few thoughts with a struggling agnostic teetering on the edge of atheism. Or, put another way, as a former minister who thought his way out [...]

According to Ron Weinland, 27 days remain until the Great Tribulation is supposed to begin in earnest. Traffic is picking up on the discussion here— a sign of The End, or a sign of the power of Google? You decide.
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The thing that all these robots have in common is that they have a certain amount of autonomy— they are given goals and strategies for achieving those goals, but the particular movements they will make at a given time are not known in advance.
Dexter, from Anybots
BigDog, from Boston Dynamics
Asimo from Honda, programmed at Carnegie Mellon
Robot [...]